Long reads

[scottyturnerscurse]

Thought I'd start a thread on long reads. I find them useful at airports, on short-haul flights without screens and during Richmond third quarters.

This is one of the best I've read this year:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/11/gay-talese-the-voyeurs-motel

 

[jb03]

https://blog.longreads.com/2015/12/01/longreads-best-of-2015-here-are-all-of-our-no-1-story-picks-from-this-year/

Haven't read them all but some good ones in there scotty. You can google the long form writing winners from any year pretty much and there is always gold.

 

[Midsy]

If you like, or dislike, Tiger Woods, this is a good read:

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/15278522/how-tiger-woods-life-unraveled-years-father-earl-woods-death

 

[scottyturnerscurse]

If you like, or dislike, Tiger Woods, this is a good read:

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/15278522/how-tiger-woods-life-unraveled-years-father-earl-woods-death

If you like, or dislike, golf, that is a great read.

 

[jb03]

If you like, or dislike, golf, that is a great read.

Agree, good stuff.

 

[scottyturnerscurse]

Fans of The Americans will enjoy this.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/07/discovered-our-parents-were-russian-spies-tim-alex-foley?CMP=share_btn_tw

 

[scottyturnerscurse]

Both of these are great.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/were-the-only-plane-in-the-sky-214230


nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/09/the-sandy-hook-hoax.html

 

[scottyturnerscurse]

This is excellent.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/?utm_source=twb